Title: Parse Error in post.php Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Parse Error in post.php * Resolved [dragolux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dragolux/) * (@dragolux) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/) * Hello everyone, * I just installed WordPress on my website, and when I go to the /wp-admin/install. php page, I get this error: * **Parse error**: parse error, unexpected ‘:’, expecting T_VARIABLE or ‘$’ in **…/ Wordpress/wp-includes/post.php** on line **856** * Any help? I would _really_ like to get this working, so any help would be really appreciated. * Thanks! * Dragolux Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/#post-706640) * Something dropped a character in your file that does not make sense. **Delete** all the files in your WordPress directory. FTP them again (make sure you are FTPing in ASCII). * Thread Starter [dragolux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dragolux/) * (@dragolux) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/#post-706765) * I tried uploading everything again in ASCII, but that didn’t work. I’ll try downloading a fresh copy and doing it again. * By the way – what FTP should I be using? I’m using WS_FTP LE 6.0. Should I try a different one, or does it not matter? * Thanks! * Thread Starter [dragolux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dragolux/) * (@dragolux) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/#post-706776) * Ok, I tried downloading a fresh copy, and installing it again, but it still doesn’t work! I see the **post.php** file on my computer, and it’s fine – line 856 is clean. On my computer, it looks like this: * `$tags = (is_array($tags)) ? $tags : explode( ',', $tags );` * But when I view it on the server, it looks like this: * `$tags = (is_array($tags)) ? $ : plode( ',', $tags );` * So it must have something to do with uploading it. How can I fix this? * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/#post-706777) * Did you delete all the files and directories in your WordPress folder? I may be seeing 2 style.css files. * I don’t think it matters which FTP you use. After you FTP you should go to your site admin and check to see if the files you FTP’d are indeed there. * BTW, there is a line 856 and there is a $. There should not be a : * Thread Starter [dragolux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dragolux/) * (@dragolux) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/#post-706778) * I think you missed my above comment. Read the post right above your last one. * [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/) * (@whooami) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/#post-706779) * upload in ascii, not binary. * Thread Starter [dragolux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dragolux/) * (@dragolux) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/#post-706781) * I did that. But it still is doing something to the code. * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/#post-706783) * You could open the file on the server and fix the error there. I think you will just get additional errors that don’t show now as it stops at the first parse problem. Still, that may be worth a try. * I know of nothing that will change code in FTP unless somewhere “auto” or “binary” is set. Maybe it wouldn’t hurt to use a different FPT program. Do you have Firefox? You could try FireFTP. * Thread Starter [dragolux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dragolux/) * (@dragolux) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/#post-706808) * I deleted/uploaded everything again, this time using FireFTP, but the same thing happened. * By the way, how do I edit something on the server in FireFTP? Do I just right click on it and go to **Open With…Notepad**? Then how do I save it? * [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/) * (@whooami) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/#post-706811) * you dont need to edit files that way — you seemingly havent mastered editing files as they sit on your desktop. 😛 (Besides, this is a WP support forum– not a windows application help site) * Seriously, this isnt rocket science. * delete the directory of WP files that are on your desktop. * Unpack the zip again, recreating the folder and the files that you just deleted. * Download your wp-config.php and put it inside the folder on your desktop that contains wp-config-sample.php. * Delete all the WP files off your server. * Upload new files in ascii. * Thread Starter [dragolux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dragolux/) * (@dragolux) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/#post-706815) * Lol, I know this isn’t “rocket science”, so I should be able to do it, right? I did everything exactly the way you said, and it still shows this error: * `Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':', expecting T_VARIABLE or '$' in /homepages/ 5/d132483652/htdocs/tutorial_wow/Wordpress/wp-includes/post.php on line 856` * I could try downloading it _again_ and doing the whole thing over, but this is getting kind of boring… * [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/) * (@whooami) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/#post-706816) * If you email me your ftp info, I will upload WP for you * whoo AT——– whoo.org —- * Thread Starter [dragolux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dragolux/) * (@dragolux) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-postphp-1/#post-706881) * I just solved the problem! It just so happens that I have an internet filter on my computer that’s too good. 🙂 And it took out some of the words in the code.( they weren’t bad words, it was just the way the code was set up.) When I took the filter off, it worked fine! * Thanks for all your help! 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